Copilot design
MS ask for more robust laptop.
Copilot removes the screen.
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I'd be interested in how long HVO can be stored before it has to be disposed of. Especially an issue with backup power. I know diesel doesn't last forever but I'm sure it's better than HVO.
I've had to resort to using Super Unleaded in my lawn mower simply because RON 95 left in the mower for a long period is going to degrade and damage the engine.
I'm not convinced it will happen. They tried to do the same with OneNote. They've now abandoned the new shiny version and gone back to the original.
Similarly, they've introduced the replacement for VBA in Excel. It's crap and hard to run on multiple PCs due to the security (even though there's very little you can do with it). VBA will be around for a long time as it's the main thing stopping people quitting Excel for something free.
From the last couple of weeks, the adverts seem to appear about 5 seconds before you'd expect them to in the normal flow. Mildly annoying but there are only 2 adverts per 40 minutes or so. Less than we were seeing on their FreeVee service.
Targeting is hopeless - considering the amount of purchasing data that Amazon have from our account, I have no idea why they're targeting this 50-something with adverts more suited to 20-somethings. I'd not be impressed if I were paying for the adverts.
It's a pain if a VPN or other remote connection is secured using trusted IP addresses. I've just changed to Zen (plusnet have scrapped their business service), so been through the change once. Hopefully, I'll be recent enough that they won't be changing my address.
I've worked on a few projects with IBM over the years.
First it involved going to their data centres - lots of servers with warning lights flashing as RAID was degraded. Nobody ever bothered to fix that.
To make life more difficult, there weren't enough keyboards to go around all the servers (this was before RDP). If you left the server you were working on, someone would take your keyboard. As these were the old PS/2 keyboards, you'd then have to reboot to make another keyboard work.
More recently, they wanted me to do some very specialised work. Just a few days. My PI only covers me to £1m. They wanted £2m. By the time we'd sorted that out (6 months), the remainder of the project had been abandoned.
No, I don't know what they do any more either!
I'm in an apple-free office - Windows/Linux/Android, so no fanboi.
However, Apple have no real history of innovation - they take someone else's nearly great idea and polish it with easier UI and less stuff to worry about. If anyone can get VR/AR to work, it's Apple.
That said, I'm yet to be convinced of a generic need for this stuff that can't be fulfilled on a regular monitor. Is the market for games and porn big enough?
My broadband is slow making uploads a thing to be scheduled overnight. Typically, it's installers that I want to keep in OneDrive.
I looked into the idea of a cloud PC but couldn't make it cost effective. In the end, I just have a Windows VM in Azure that I use for an hour or so each time.
I always assume that most attackers are just some script looking for an uprotected target. Your comment is probably valid for the government or large business servers, but home users and small businesses might as well just block whole countries. I can't see me selling much to China, Russia, half of Africa, plus assorted Eastern European and Middle Eastern countries.